Improvement in dress-buttons



R. E. BROOKES. Dress-Buttons.

No. 220,697. Patented Oct. 21, I879.

WjTJm'ssE5: IAVZWTOR.

.PEfE-RS. PHOTd UT I' kOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON D C.

UNITEDSTATE'S PATENT OFFICE.

ROSE E. BROOKES, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

-iM PROVEMENT' IN DRESS-BUTTONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 220,697, dated October21, 1879; application filed a March 22, 1879.

V a dress-button or fastening embodying my invention Fig. 2, a sectionin the plane of the line 90 m; Fig. 3, a bottom view of thelaterally-extended removable shank; Fig. 4, a representation of theremovable screw for connecting the shank to the head of the button;

and Fig. 5, a face view of the eye for receiv= ing the head of theshank. I

Like letters of reference indicate like parts. A A represent portions ofthe goods to which the buttons are applied. B is the head of the button,which has a central opening from face to face, as shown in Fig. 2. G isthe shank of the-button. This shank is made separately from the head B,is headed 011 its lower end, as indicated at a, and has the long lateralextensions a a, each about equal in length to the radius of the head B.

D is a headed screw-pin adapted to enter and to be suspended in thecentral opening of the head B. The lower or threaded part of the pin Dis long enough to pass through the goods and enter a female screw in thecentral part of the upper or inner face of the shank O, as indicated inFig. 2.

E is the eye to receive the head of the shank O. This eye has acehtralopening, 6, to receive the head a, and'the opening 0 opens into anarrower or contracted opening, 0, large enough to receive the neck ofthe shank C, but not the head a, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 2.

In order to apply these buttons to the goods, the head B is arrangedoutside and near one edge of the goods, as indicated in Fig. 1. Theshank G is arranged on the inner or under face of the goods, andso as toreceive the screw or pin D when the latter is passed through the head B.The-screw should then be screwed into the shank, and the shank left atright angles to the edge of the goods. as is clearly shown in Fig. 2,the head B and the shank being thus firmly fastened to the goods.

The eye E is fastened to the other edge of the goods, and arranged withthe contracted part of the opening toward the button and directlyopposite its shank, as indicated in Fig. 1.

To admit of the eye E being attached to the goods with facility, I deemit best to make in the eye one or more openings, 0 6, large enough toadmit a needle, so that the fastening may be done by sewing; but theopenings 6" e are not absolutely essential.

To button the goods together, it is only necessary to draw them togetherand pass the head a through the opening 6, and then release the goods,when the neck of the shank G will pass into the opening 0, and the heada be prevented from being withdrawn until it is pushed back to theopening 0, which may be done in order to unbutton the goods, it beingunderstood thatthe goods, when on the wearer, will be drawn apartsufficiently to draw the neck of the shank into the opening 6, and thattheymaybe drawn together sufficiently at any time to be unbuttoned.

The head B may be covered in any suitable vmanner.

I am aware that buttons have heretofore been made with removable headedshanks, and that the latter have been passed through the goods from oneside into a head on the other. I am also aware that the shank hasheretofore been made in two parts, so as to make a self-fastening button5 but in none of these cases, so far as I am aware, have the shanks hadthe laterally-extending wings a a, and consequently the edge of thegoods to which these buttons were applied would not be held closely tothe heads of the buttons, excepting at or near the necks of the shanks.

As I use, by preference, a very slender screw, it is unnecessary to makebutton-holes in the goods even for receiving the shank. An opening forthat purpose may be made either by the screw itself or by an ordinaryeyelet-punch. p

In using ordinary hooks and eyes, the edge of the goods is liable to bedrawn up or to be prevented from lying down smoothly.

I am aware that self-fastening buttons have heretofore been made with aview of avoiding some of the objectionable features resulting from theuse of hooks and eyes, and for preextensions or wings a a, and of ashank-fastveutin g the injury to goods resulting from the ener, forminga neck between the head or body practice of making button-holes forreceiving B and the extensions 0/ a, all adapted for arthe heads of thebuttons, and I do not here inran gemeiit together and for co-operationwith tend to claim such broadly; but, an eye for receiving and engagingthe head of Having thus described my invention, what I the shankremovably, substantially as and for claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters the purposes specified.

Patent, is- ROSE EMMA BROOKES.

A button or fastening consisting of the Witnesses:

head B and of the removable shank O, headed F. F. WARNER,

on its lower end, and provided with the lateral H. U. BALLARD.

